It’s hard to capture a life as varied and rich as that of Ann Fish.
VETERAN JOURNALIST TO DEBUT NEW MEMOIR
Renaissance Woman: Ann Fish tells the story of her many lives in new memoir
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Ann Fish works at a car race.
Ann Fish in 1958, the year after her Reidsville High School graduation. She was an assistant in the Reidsville Review’s Society Department and began covering law enforcement, club meetings and other topics. The Reidsville Review first hired her to type wedding announcements, club news and obituaries.
Ann Fish, left, with Neil Jacques. The two are longtime head organizers of the annual Countywide Food Drive.
Ann Fish poses with her grandchildren Joseph, Jasmine and Thomas, from left, outside the N.C. Aquarium at Ft. Fisher.
Ann Fish
Virginia Hunt McCollum poses with one of her children’s classes in the 1940s. From left (front), are Malcolm McCollum, Mary Linda Somers, Ann Marie Somers (now Ann Fish) and Howell Lee Busick; (back row) Helen Combs, a student whose name is not known, Harold Dunevant and another unknown student.
Ann Fish with her Reidsville High School Class of 1957 (from left, front row) Sylvia Jarrell Fulp, Camille Stone Wilson, Marie Stanley Robertson, JoAnn Davis, Anne Wallace Foster, Esther Brent Tuttle, Julia Harris Somers, Maribeth Dove Woolard, Elaine Stanley McKinney, Martha Bugher Blackwell, Rosilee Baynes Stanfield, Shirley Chapman Pearson, Donald Brown; back row, Roger Carter, Dwight Hall, Ronald Elliott, Jennie Chapman Banfield, Arlene Stanley London, Nat Walker, Dennis Walters, Jimmy Fleagle, Wiley O’Bryant, Garland Paschal, Vivian Echols Smith, Jimmy Cooke and Ann Marie Somers Fish.
Ann Fish’s grandchildren (from left, back), Jasmine Horten, Skylar and Thomas Fish and Austin Pacheco, and (front) Joseph Fish on the beach.
Ann Fish, a columnist who writes about Rockingham County people and places, released a dove during the celebration of her 60 years in journalism in 2017. The party for Fish took place Aug. 12 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Eden. Fish was hired by the Reidsville Review in 1957.
Ann Fish at a Memorial Day service in Eden in 2017.
Ann Fish, shown at the Herald-Dispatch in Sierra-Vista, Ariz., spent much of the 1970s in Arizona, where she became involved in the film industry and met lots of entertainers.
Ann Fish’s grandsons Thomas and Joseph Fish.
Snow days from childhood in Reidsville. Ann Marie Somers (left), Mary Linda Somers and Pat Mitchell (back).
NASCAR official Chad Little and Ann Fish in 2016.
